During the siege, Leningrad workers produced and repaired about 2,000 tanks, 1,500 aeroplanes, over 4,600 naval and field guns, 850 warships; they produced 225,000 automatic rifles, 12,000 mortars ...

The siege of Leningrad—872 days of relentless bombardment, starvation, and an unforgiving winter that turned the Neva River into a frozen tomb—remains one of history’s most haunting ...

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...

(PHOTO: AP/Vyacheslav Prokofyev) State television news on Monday focused coverage instead on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad, during which around a million ...

Residents of Plymouth, Tokyo, and Hamburg remember the air raids; Russian peasants recall the siege of Leningrad; Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers describe the brutality of war in Asia.

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The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...